[LLVMdev] [PATCH] Symbol offsets

[Ben Gamari]

Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> writes:

> Now that aliases can have any expressions, can't you use something like
>
> @data = private global [2 x i32] [i32 42, i32 43]
> @symbol = alias getelementptr ([2 x i32]* @data, i32 0, i32 1)
>
> This produces
>
> .Ldata:
>         .long   42                      # 0x2a
>         .long   43                      # 0x2b
> ...
>         .globl  symbol
> symbol = .Ldata+4
>
> That is, in the object file there is only one symbol (named symbol)
> and it is at offset 4.
>
How would one define the body of the function `symbol` in this case?

Cheers,

- Ben
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